An interesting question

[james_davis_nicoll]

Claire asked Ann Leckie:
Hello. I wondered if you were aware of the fact that in the french translation of Ancillary, Breq is male ?

Comments

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

Write a story where the protagonist is an incompetent translator who starts a war by translating something wrong. Fill it with plot-significant loan words from other languages whose meaning has changed in English, and puns.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that a sub-plot in the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy at some point?

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

"My hovercraft is full of eels!"